Dalit community being 'tortured' after Bharat Bandh: BJP lawmaker Udit Raj
Udit Raj
A worker of a Dalit organisation run by him in Gwalior was being tortured even though he had not done anything wrong, Udit Raj said
BJP parliamentarian Udit Raj on Saturday alleged that members of the Dalit community are "tortured" in various parts of the country after violence broke out during the 'Bharat Bandh' earlier this week.
"Reports are pouring in that those Dalits who participated in agitation on April 2 are being tortured and it must be stopped," he said in a tweet on Saturday.
"Dalits are tortured at large scale after April 2 country-wide agitation. People from Barmer, Jalore, Jaipur, Gwalior, Meerut, Bulandshahr, Karoli and other parts calling that not only anti-reservationists but police also beating & slapping false cases," he said.
All these places, incidentally are parts of states ruled by the BJP.
A worker of a Dalit organisation run by him in Gwalior was being tortured even though he had not done anything wrong, Udit Raj said.
He represents North West Delhi in the Lok Sabha.
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Dalit protesters had blocked trains, clashed with police and set fire to vehicles in violent protests across seven states on April 2 against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, leaving at least 11 people dead and many injured.
Madhya Pradesh Inspector General Law and Order, Makrand Deuskar on Saturday said that the violence in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind and Morena district during the Bharat Bandh on April 2 was funded.
IG Deuskar said that several organisations were given money to incite violence and that the police was investigating this.
A mob of some 5,000 people set fire to the homes of two Dalit politicians in Rajasthan today.
The two politicians belongto the BJP and the Congress.
Senior district official Abhimanyu Kumar told the Press Trust of India (PTI) that Legislator Rajkumari Jatav and ex-legislator Bharosilal Jatav were not in Hinduan town of Karauli district when their homes were attacked.